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Program Review: Children Learning Reading

Is the development and education of your child
important to you? And have you been searching for a program that will
help you teach your child to read, but spending hundreds of dollars on
unproven programs just doesn't make any sense to you? I can understand
your frustrations, as I've been through much of the same experiences
myself...

Recently I came across a step-by-step program
that helps parents to easily teach their children to read. The wonderful
thing about this program is that as long as your child is able to
speak, it will help you teach your child to read fluently. I had some
doubts initially when I saw that the program claimed that even 2 and 3
year old children can be taught to read effectively; however, my doubts
were quickly put to rest when I saw their video proofs of small children
reading.

The authors of the program, Jim and Elena, had
developed their Children Learning Reading program, and then used it to
teach their own children to read before turning 3 years old. They showed
various clips of their young 2 year 11 months old daughter reading, and
I was quite surprised to see how capable their daughter was at reading
by the time she was just a little over 3 years old. I did not expect to
see small 3 year old children capable of reading children's books!
Here's a video for you to see:

Who Is the Program Designed For?

The Children Learning Reading program is designed
for parents with young children between the ages of 2 to 6 years old.
It is designed to teach toddlers and small children to read effectively.
One important thing to keep in mind is that this program is not
designed for extremely young children, or children who have not learned
to speak yet. However, if your child has learned to speak, then you can
use this program to teach your child to read.

The central goal of the Children Learning Reading
program is to help your child learn to decode printed text quickly and
learn to read fluently through the critical process of developing
phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is arguably one of the most
important aspects of learning to read, and becoming a fluent reader.
Children who lack phonemic awareness typically have reading
difficulties, and end up being poor readers. Jim & Elena's Children
Learning Reading program is an extremely simple, straight forward, and
step-by-step program. Their program includes simple exercises and
practices starting with the very first lessons that work to help your
child develop phonemic awareness, and learn to read. Clinical studies,
and even the National Reading Panel has stated that helping children
develop phonemic awareness is one of the most effective ways to teach
children to read.

How Does the Children Learning Reading Program Work?

The program is designed to be taught to your
child in two stages, and each stage comes with it's own instruction book
and step-by-step lessons. Stage 1 helps your child develop all the
important foundational skills of learning to read and read fluently,
while stage 2 lessons deal with slightly more advanced lessons helping
to greatly advance your child's already impressive reading skills
developed from stage 1 lessons.

There are 28 lesson in stage one that are
smoothly laid out to teach your child starting with the building blocks
of reading printed text. The alphabet letters and sounds are introduced
to your child in a stepped, sensible, and intuitive order through the 28
lessons. Very simple words and blending exercises are introduced very
early on, and more complicated words, sentences, stories, and rhymes are
slowly introduced with the lessons as your child progress. By the time
you complete stage one lessons with your child, your child will have
already developed superb reading skills that sometimes leave you even
surprised and amazed.

Once you complete stage one, you can move on to
stage 2 lessons, which involve teaching some more complicated matters
dealing with reading. There are 22 lessons in stage two. One of the main
focus of this stage is teaching your child letter combinations or also
known as digraphs. The words, sentences, lesson stories, and rhymes here
are more advanced, and work to greatly increase your child's reading
skills and reading fluency.

The one thing that really struck a chord with me
about this program is that it doesn't force your child to explicitly
memorize any phonics rules! Being parents, I'm sure you can imagine how
difficult it would be to have toddlers and young children memorize rules
to reading! The wonderful thing about Jim & Elena's Children
Learning Reading program is that throughout the entire program, your
child learns to read, and develops phenomenal reading and decoding
skills without memorizing any phonics rules. This is why their program
is so effective at teaching children to read.

Another huge plus of this program is that the
step-by-step lessons are designed to be quick and effective. Each lesson
typically takes no longer than 5 to 10 minutes to complete, and some
lessons take just 2 or 3 minutes to complete. As you can imagine, with
the short attention span of small children, short lessons like these
will be much more effective and productive than long, drawn-out lessons.
To teach your child to read, all that you need to do is follow the
lessons step-by-step, and spend 5 to 10 minutes each day consistently
teaching your child to read. In just 12 short weeks,
you will be extremely pleased that you have taken then time and
effort to give your child the most important skill in life -
reading.